Hub: Story Structure
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Picking a perspective is like choosing your weapon before a gladiator match; it limits and defines your style of approach....
Given our lack of omniscience in the land of the living, writing can offer us a liberating chance to experience...
Theme is a way of making a series of events which are personal to the protagonist universally relatable to a...
Rising action refers to the series of events that lead from a story’s inciting incident to the climax. In this...
With storytelling, if your reader isn’t engaged within the first few chapters, you run the risk of losing their attention....
What happens after a story’s climactic moment? What comes after the protagonist wins the girl, or defeats the bully, or...
Rising action refers to the series of events that lead from a story’s inciting incident to the climax. In this...
Story is always a journey of self-discovery “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Embarking on a creative...
At the heart of every story lies a dilemma. It is not a question of whether or not your protagonist...
What happens after a story’s climactic moment? What comes after the protagonist wins the girl, or defeats the bully, or...
At the heart of every story lies a dilemma. It is not a question of whether or not your protagonist...
With storytelling, if your reader isn’t engaged within the first few chapters, you run the risk of losing their attention....
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(Image from The Hunger Games, 2012) “The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for...
Any writer can experience that moment where you suddenly realize that your “idea” of the story isn’t going to get...
“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.” – Isaac Newton While exploring the nature of the “want”...
At the heart of every story lies a dilemma from which all tensions and conflicts arise. How do you identify...
In Steven Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he states: “Begin with the end in mind.” For...
It can be frightening and exhilarating to realize that our story is bigger than we are, that in fact, it...
There is a structure to the universe. From the smallest atom to the forces that move the planets, there is...
Story structure is often taught by story analysts as plot, but it is really the DNA of our protagonist’s internal...
“I find that when I am working I become like an antenna, and suddenly everything relates to my screenplay: a...
One thing that has been coming up a lot in my classes is the tendency for writers to “figure out”...
At the heart of every story lies a dilemma. It is not a question of whether or not your protagonist...
Why do we write? Why do we spend months, years, even decades engaged in the solitary act of creating a...
